recalcitrant

Today’s word of the moment is Recalcitrant.

According to Dictionary.com (our always loyal friend), Recalcitrant is something like this:

\rih-KAL-sih-truhnt\ , adjective;

1. Stubbornly resistant to and defiant of authority or restraint.

If they lingered too long, Clarice hurried them along in the same annoyed way she rushed recalcitrant goats through the gate.

- Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

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